pitmaster

How long is it since you went to a game? For the past 10 years or so seat tickets have been assigned to MCC members on a first come first served basis on the middle tier. There's no longer any need for scarf reservations in my experience but maybe you sit on a different level like P or M?

They were 'that excited'. That's why they forgot to check everyone was there. It wasn't just Max. Rivers, Hunt and one other were also late to the party...so they sang it again.

To answer your main question: MFC had a big dip at recruiting Yze to the coaching panel at the end of 2019 and almost succeeded. Hawks managed to keep him despite our best efforts. He started under Clarkson maybe 6 years ago as skills/kicking coach. Last year he was elevated to game day strategy. TV vision strongly suggested he was Clarkson's main game day confidant. It's not just emotion that causes people to want him back although that does not hurt. It's the fact of where he has been and what he has learned.

Those tall backs are going to need time to learn to work as one. That's the best hope I can offer.

Hold on to that feeling.

You're right. It is a shocking head. I think it was George Orwell who said that by 40 every man has the face he deserves. Kennett is the walking living proof. Incidentally he is a bully as well as ugly and arrogant with it. He used to say that if you have never employed anyone you have never created anything. His attitude was if you worked for a living you were nobody. I wonder how he thinks about nurses, ambos and doctors post-Covid? Incidentally his creation was a crummy suburban advertising company that did supermarket leaflets and cheap late-night TV spots. Remember Dave and Mabel? Hardly a commercial behemoth.

Agree. Rich-Coll was a dead end. Dullest game in a long time. This is much better, especially because the poos and wees are going down...down...down. Cop that Jeff!

Spiel...but from Jeff it's always hot air.

It's long past time that people in this state took Kennett seriously. He squandered one of the great electoral victories and saw himself tossed out after two terms when he should have been guaranteed a decade. So he is attached to a successful club. It's never been his doing. His opinions should count for next to nothing.

How did they stuff that up? Clearly over the line on first viewing. Pathetic that commentators don't speak up.

40 over four seasons 1963-66

Boots and shorts?

Sorry, what may not have been allowed? A merchandise stand maybe. But a sign pointing to the shop surely would be OK. I went round to the shop and belted my credit card, so purchasing was allowed.

Went to the 'G for my pick up. Four key rings included - Viney, Gawn, Harmes, Brayshaw caricatures - per member was a neat touch HOWEVER, the club missed an opportunity. Since the pick up was at Gate 3 there should have been a merchandise stand as well or at least a sign directing people to the demonshop near Gate 7 which was open but (when I was there) deserted! There was nothing to tell members the shop was open or to display what was available a few hundred meters away. And no sign on the door of the shop that it was even open. Management needs to be more assertive, even pushier, to move those merchandise sales.

Yet they abandoned Dingley.

It doesn't help us but I am taking quiet satisfaction in the fact the Hawks pokies are silent, and hopefully the debt on those gaming facilities is bleeding their reserves. F--- them now and forever.

Normally I am in accord with you MS so I am surprised to find myself vehemently opposed to your ideas on this. Without a base, and without something that tells its story like a museum or a physical Hall of Fame, a football club, any sporting club, is just an idea. That's what we have been for years; a concept we carry around in our heads but with nothing physical to show for it. Seinfeld said sports fans are merely barracking for a shirt so when a player changes teams/clubs it's a matter of "Boo. Wrong shirt!" That's us, an idea represented by a shirt. I'd like something more.

Noted that. But Chapter 11 in the US is intended to enable companies to trade their way out of strife. It is not the end. Any car hire company is going to feel some pain under lockdown. Hopefully our Hertz can ride this out.

Tks.

Chunks' presser this afternoon has Zurich, Hertz, Jaguar...and Furphy ale as our sponsors. Any posters know when this was stitched up?

Met a mate in that cafe. It was jumping. Probably full of filth employees bludging but it was certainly turning a dollar. I suspect social clubs, like pubs have been hit by drink driving laws, but I think they have a place as long as they are part of a home base which should include a club museum along with admin offices. Having seen the Hawks museum, and the Bombers and the Pies halls of fame I can vouch for the fact they are very evocative and have real appeal to diehards. It's a shame we have nothing like that. Even Fitzroy has a space at Docklands given over to old Lions memorabilia. Those who attended Gutnick's fund raiser back in '96 would remember the Demons memorabilia in the old change rooms where that event took place. It was wonderful old stuff that is otherwise unseen. I reckon a home base, with a museum cum Hall of Fame, training and office base and social event spaces would still work, especially in the vicinity of the MCG because it is so well served by public transport. It would also give the players a sense of their place in history. Imagine story boards about the great unexpected victory of 1926, the arrival of Checker, the achievements of Bluey in the Battle of Britain as well as on the field, the other blokes lost in war, the Red Fox story board, the extraordinary achievement of two triple premierships, the indigenous Demons, the Northey and Daniher revivals...there is so much material to work with to make a brilliant museum and Hall of Fame that would be an enormous drawcard. That is a long winded way of saying I respectfully disagree.

Judgemental about other clubs? That's everybody. I have heard some Hooray Henry private schoolers among our supporters lording it over the Bulldogs in class terms which frankly gave me the sh&%s, but toothless Tiger supporters, drunken criminal Woodsmen, ratbag brawling Bombers supporters, snooty Hawks...I hear more of that from other clubs. Where did Jim say that?

Good effort. Where's the bar?

Silver Tails is such a falsity. We're one of the least financially able of the Victorian clubs.

Or Ooze. His game day strategist.